What a crock of sh1t....

Stake are not sponsoring football teams (Everton & Watford) to target UK gamblers, they do that because football is a global Sport and it gives them global advertising possibilities. 

Stake also created a whole new site, namely stake.uk.com that adhere to UK laws and regulations for them to operate there. They cannot offer all games, but they do offer games that are allowed in the UK.

This article are drumming up a lot of unrelated stories without actual proof that Stake.com are involved in any shady activities to promote VPN use. I even see someone trying to bait Eddie in his stream to say something about VPN use, but Eddie does not fall for nonsense like that.... when the mods muted the chat user for spamming, he just popped up under a new Alt user... and continued doing that. 

We have heard all of that before, just go back to the run up to the election where Trump was elected. One of the senators (a women) were saying all the right things, before the election and then when Trump were elected, he turned against Bitcoin and she kept quite.. because the money was too good for her to fight for Bitcoin. 

You cannot believe one thing that comes out of the mouth of a politician, they will promise you the world before the election, but once they are voted in, they forget all about that. 

OP, the answer is actually very simple :

Governments control the supply of all currencies and by doing that, they control the economy and the people in their country. So Bitcoin takes the control away from them, if Bitcoin replace fiat currencies and they want to prevent that at all cost. Governments can also monitor all transactions via Banks to track people's wealth... and for tax purposes.

The Banks on the other hand wants to make profits by over charging people on transaction fees and Bitcoin takes away some of their customers and they hate that.

Bitcoin are breaking the control that Governments and Banks have over people and they cannot handle that.

Well, it looks like South Africa political neutrality are counting in their favor now, because the US are not in the position to talk with Russia about Peace in this war with the Ukrainians ...due to their hostile approach towards Russia.

South Africa on the other end, stayed neutral and they are talking to both countries to establish some grounds for peace talks. You can go in with all guns blazing like the Americans or you can simply extend your hand and get a political solution for the war, like the South Africans are doing. 

Well, I think it would have been better if you only tried to withdraw say 30% of your whole balance and then waited a few days and then withdraw another 30%...etc... because the smaller casinos does not like a complete withdraw of all the balance in one withdraw. (It hurts their cash flow)

I play mostly at Stake.com and PrimeDice and the larger casinos, because they are not full of nonsense when you want to withdraw large amounts. I hope you learnt your lesson and you will take my advice. 

The thing is ... casinos use a system that "flags" a scam matrix and if your play fits that matrix.. your account gets flagged. So you might have been unlucky to fit that scam matrix by accident and they trusted that system to "block" your account.

They should have investigated a little bit more, but I doubt that they will put the effort in to do that.. so you got flagged as a scammer and they hate scammers, so they blocked your account and took your money.

You should play at more reputable gambling sites, with a more "fair" approach to such instances. 

I have learnt that lesson when one of the forum member stored their keys in the cloud a few years ago and someone hacked their account and found his/her keys. Now I see Ledger created a "online" storage feature for the "Seed" or "Private keys" and I see storm clouds gathering for a shit storm!

I will also plead with people not to trust 3rd party services with their keys, not even if it is a regulated Exchange. Use the service to trade (buy and sell) but do not keep it on there for long periods. 

Well, it was introduced to me when the price was just over $100..... but I did not buy at that price. I thought it was Monopoly money and I thought it will be shutdown by the governments of the world, like they did with other people who created their own currencies.

It was "Cloak and Dagger" money back then and people bought it secretly on street corners in my country. I did more research and I figured out that it cannot be shutdown and I found a way to buy it online, so I started buying at $300+ 

I do not see a thread discussing the United Rugby Championship and the final being played between the Stormers and Munster tomorrow, so I just want to know who do you think is going to win that match?

It is being played in South Africa, giving home field advantage to the Stormers, but Munster has won the Stormers at their home field before, so I do not know if it actually gives them a large advantage. 

This is going to be a hard match and too close to call... 

I think some people might think that they can use the "once off" reading of the ToS at the registering of their account, as an excuse that they could have missed something or they have forgotten something. So Stake are forcing people to acknowledge it again and to refresh their memories.

This is probably not going to be the last time that we will be doing this, Stake will probably repeat this on a regular basis to cover themselves against people who wants to exploit loopholes. 

I think one of the reasons that Germany are doing so well is that the economy of Germany is the largest manufacturing economy in Europe. Germany is also the most open economy amongst the G7 states, with a foreign trade quota at around 98% 

Germany's rebirth as a global economic power after World War II, just shows us how fast they can recover after a crisis, so it was expected that they would bounce back first, after Covid and also the influence of the War between Russia and the Ukraine.

Do you really think, Elon Musk need to use "fear" tactics to influence the market? The guy have been the richest person in the world on several occasions and his Bitcoin ownership, according to him.... is very small.  

Yes, he joked around with Shiba and Dogecoin a few years ago, but he got into trouble for that... so I doubt that he will try and do that again. I think the US sentiment towards Crypto currencies are negative at the moment, because strict regulation is on the horizon and Elon Musk have seen that.  

Well, if they go through with this...it will be an iconic building for Bitcoin awareness and a good destination for Bitcoin tourists. I for one, will like to take a photo in front of a building shaped like that. (Bucket lists item)

The building will also boost Bitcoin adoption, because a lot of people are looking up to the people in Dubai, for what they have achieved in the global financial scene and they follow their lead, because they know that they are at the forefront of technology.  

I have a very weird strategy, because I adapt my coin of choice... based on the market movement. I deposit both stable and unstable coins and then play with stable coins, when the markets are volatile and when it is dumping.

I will then switch to my unstable coins when the market are in a recovery phase, because I do not want to lose any money due to market volatility. So, it's tokens like usdt when the markets are volatile and in the "red" and it is unstable tokens when the market is in the "green"  

So, nobody is saying anything about the Post-Monthly that was paid out? I was very surprised about this, because we have not seen a decent post-monthly like this for a while. Mine was actually a bit more than what I expected from a post monthly, because it is normally about the same as a Weekly.

Eddie did say on Saturday that they tweaked the bonuses and that it was going to be slightly more than usual, so it was like that for me. (I did lose a bit more than usual, so it might just be that too) 

This makes you wonder if the signature campaign did not give them the desired results or if the money ran out for this campaign? I do not know if better reward bonuses will draw in more people, because there are some stigma linked to these rewards.

Are these rewards worth it, if it comes with a bunch of "rules" that you have to adhere to? (Rollover requirements)? A lot of the successful casinos do not offer these bogus rewards, they run competitions and challenges for large prizes.

I think people are over hyping this whole ChatGPT AI thing, because they see "fake" market predictions from ChatGPT content providers, and they think it is actually usable. 

ChatGPT and all other AI driven software have one thing in common... "Garbage In - Garbage Out" .... because the data that the AI are using are human generated and if that is flawed, then the outcome of the query are flawed too. 

AI are the new buzzword and people follow like sheep....

How will a "Survey" help to prevent those actions?

Most people lie on surveys, so you are not getting accurate data from those surveys. The ToS specifically restrict certain countries from playing on those sites, so people are not just breaking the rules that are stated in the ToS, but they are breaking the local laws of their country.

So, if people stick to the rules, then situations like this will be prevented. The sites must just make sure that the users specifically acknowledge that they have read the ToS and that they will abide by it.

I see Stake.com have recently forced people to "tick" that they have read the ToS, before they can enter the site.  

I think the loophole that people want to exploit, is that Eddie (co-owner) of Stake.com are using a VPN to play on Stake, while he is an Australian citizen. I think people see that as a sign that they too can use a VPN to bypass the restrictions.

The thing is, if the ToS specifically states that some countries are restricted, then people from those countries must abide by the ToS and the laws of those countries, if they use any any means to bypass those laws... then they are breaking the ToS and their local laws.  

I can see certain scenarios where VPN use might be legit, for example if I am a citizen of a country where it is legal to gamble at Stake and I am on holiday in a country where it is illegal. I can then use the local countries Internet and then use a VPN to play, because I am still a citizen of a country where it is legal to gamble there.  

The previous Banking crisis was caused by Fractional reserve banking, where only a fraction of bank deposits are required to be available for withdrawal, the rest are loaned out to lenders. This is the building blocks of any Banks, no matter how big you are.

You do not have to loan money to foreign countries to have toxic loans, it can happen with local loans too, when they have reckless lending practices. Do you know what amount of money do your Bank have to have in reserve, according to your local laws?